Several jaws dropped on the floor when Millie Bobby Brown hit the red carpet for the premiere of her latest movie.
While fans showed support for the young star, critics trolled her appearance and claimed she looked like she could be the mother of husband Jake Bongiovi.
“She looks 40,” one claimed, while another wrote, “She's unrecognizable!!”
Highlights
- Millie Bobby Brown hit the red carpet for the premiere of her latest movie, 'The Electric State.'
- She posed during the LA event with her husband, Jake Bongiovi.
- The actress addressed her new hair color, saying: “Blondes have more fun.”
- “Just because she’s married now doesn’t mean she has to dress 20 years older,” one critic said about her appearance.
Millie Bobby Brown looked “unrecognizable” to fans during the premiere of her latest movie, The Electric State
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On Monday, February 24, Millie attended the Los Angeles premiere of the sci-fi comedy adventure The Electric State.
The 21-year-old actress dazzled in a beaded gold gown at the event, held at the Egyptian Theatre.
With her on the red carpet was her doting husband Jake, who gave her a kiss as they posed for the cameras.
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The couple seemed to be in high spirits, but social media users couldn’t stop obsessing over her appearance.
“I thought it was his mom yikes still beautiful,” one commenter said, while another wrote, “How to look 45 at 23 years of age.”
“Why does she look so much older than him?” another asked.
“She looks like a housewife of Beverly hills with this hair do,” one critic harshly said
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One said, “She looks like an older woman with her pool boy....wow…”
“Gosh this makes her look older….” said another. “I feel like I’m looking into the future… am I the only one.”
She’s “looking 10 years older than her actual age,” another remarked. “Why?”
Husband Jake Bongiovi posed beside her during the LA premiere at the Egyptian Theatre
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“She needs to fire her stylist,” another wrote. “Just because she’s married now doesn’t mean she has to dress 20 years older.”
However, fans praised her and said, “She’s beautiful. Love the dress.”
“They make a beautiful young couple,” another praised.
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“She’s beautiful and her dress is stunning. A lot of people are commenting that she looks older … As long as she likes it, that’s all that matters,” another said.
During the film premiere on Monday, a red carpet interviewer spoke to the actress about her blonde transformation and how fans were calling this her “Millie Bobby Blonde” era.
“I didn’t think people cared that much about my hair,” she told Access Hollywood, “and then I realized it’s become a topic of conversation.”
An interviewer on the red carpet spoke to the actress about how people were calling this her “Millie Bobby Blonde” era
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“I think it’s nice,” she added about going blonde. “Blondes have more fun.”
The Stranger Things star made the red carpet debut of her platinum blonde locks during the 2025 SAG Awards.
She hit back at haters earlier this month for making comments about her appearance.
“Women grow. Not sorry about it,” she unapologetically said in an Instagram story.
“Blondes have more fun,” the 21-year-old British star said about her current hair color
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The Electric State, which will premiere on Netflix on March 14, 2025, has Millie starring alongside Chris Pratt, Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander, Giancarlo Esposito and Stanley Tucci.
The movie tells the story of young Michelle (played by Millie) and a robot reluctantly teaming up with an eccentric drifter (played by Chris) to traverse through a robot wasteland and find Michelle’s brother.
Chris spoke about sharing the screen with Millie and said she used to bring a petting zoo with her to the set every day.
“She’s like a mother to all of these cats and dogs and goats and chickens and bunnies and llamas,” he told Access Hollywood.
“I swear to God, she was like bringing a petting zoo with her every day,” he added.
The Electric State co-star Chris Pratt called Millie “very maternal” and “very sweet”
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Apart from calling her “very maternal” and “very sweet,” Chris said it was “awesome” to see Millie and Jake together, sharing “young love” before they tied the knot.
“It was just awesome to see them be super young and in love,” he told the outlet.
Chris revealed that Jake would often visit his now-wife on the film’s set.
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She has “such a love for her now-husband, Jake, who was on set every day,” the Guardians of the Galaxy star said during an October appearance at New York Comic Con.
“They are these totally awesome and normal people who live extraordinary lives,” he added.
Millie and Jake (the son of singer Jon Bon Jovi) got engaged in April 2023, and secretly tied the knot in May last year.
The sci-fi comedy adventure will premiere on Netflix on March 14, 2025
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During an interview with Vanity Fair earlier this month, the Enola Holmes actress called Jake the “first man” she’s ever loved and “been in love with.”
They were “pretty united” going into their marriage, having spoken about their political views, the family they wanted to build and the kind of careers they wanted.
“It's such an important decision, and we wanted to make sure we were making the right one,” she told the outlet. “I knew I was. It always felt right with him.”
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